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The final names of the next Super Smash Bros. games for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U have been revealed. Although both games were shown off to the public earlier this week for the first time, Nintendo hasn’t shared their official names until today. Super Smash Bros. series director has confirmed to IGN that the Nintendo 3DS version of the game is simply called Super Smash Bros. 3DS and the Wii U version’s official title is Super Smash Bros. Wii U.

Update: As listed on the Super Smash Bros. website, the new Super Smash Bros. games are actually called “Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS” and “Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.”

Double-checked on the translation of my question and Sakurai’s answer – it is ‘for Wii U’ and ‘for 3DS’. Corrected the story!

No. I’m talking about the people that are more retarded than us, for them, is the same name, and by consequence they can only buy the 3D version, because the name looks more attractive to them, so… yeah… my point is clear, the name looks fair enough, if you don’t like it, that’s not my problem.

I get the feeling SSBU and SSB3D are what fans are going to call it anyway. I have no complaints with the plain, no-nonsense titles, but they aren’t catchy like “Brawl” or “Melee” in the past. As silly as “Universe” would be, it’d at least be a subtitle we could refer to it by. Oh well.

They’re good names but I would’ve preferred either Super Smash Bros. 4 for both of them or Maybe even Super Smash Bros. U and Super Smash Bros. 3D. Again, those are good names and I can’t wait for this game to come out! =)

Man, talk about lazy naming. At least the Wii version wasn’t called “Super Smash Bros. Wii”. I always thought it was lazy titles whenever a game is named after the console. And there’s a LOT like that.

I don’t get it. The graphic has a 4 in it. Why even put that in there if it’s not going to be part of the name? This announcement was supposed to clear up the confusion but it’s only made me more confused.

SSB3D and SSBU. That’s how they’ll end up abbreviated. U pretty much is already used for Wii U anyhow and 3D is what they tend to do with the 3DS. They are 2 different games after all. Stages will vary and who knows, maybe even some characters will be different between the two. They did say the rosters are the same size, but they never said anything about them being the same, so just the wording of that makes you wonder if maybe they have a few different characters. A few handheld only franchises on the 3DS and home console only on the Wii U wouldn’t surprise me, especially since they’re already doing that with the stages. And maybe they’ll be able to link the two games together to get the version specific stages and characters on the other version, since they did say they’d have some sort of cross compatibility function. This is all just speculation, but it makes sense and seems like a Nintendo sort of thing to do. It’d reward the players who have bother versions, like trading version exclusive pokemon to fill the pokedex. It’s almost like a form of DLC I feel like, but it’s a bonus reward instead of an additional cost

It’ll avoid confusion.
Btw, I (wishfully) think Mega Man will unlock either Mega Man X or Zero. And If Dark Samus isn’t in this one, it’ll never happen :(
(Dark Samus, Spire and Rundas for Metroid characters)
I’m surprisingly more excited for X! They’re both coming out the same year, so 2014 can’t come quick enough!

I wouldn’t put money on any third party franchise getting more than one rep. Metroid might get up to 3. But I have a feeling that they’re gonna focus less on multiple characters from single franchises and more on reaching out to new franchises. Get one Xenoblade character (Shulk), one professor Layton, one Animal Crossing (though Tom Nook saw the letter after Villager dropped it so he may come too), and so on and so forth. Non-major first party franchises shouldn’t expect more than 2 reps I think. I mean, just looking at Wii Fit Trainer gives the impression that they really wanna change things up and make them a bit crazier, so it makes some sense

I was thinking those logos looked pretty legit for people to be saying they didn’t reveal the names. I mean, the 3 in 3DS and U in Wii U both had the flame effects going through them, so it seemed legit. I actually like it, people always just call Super Smash Bros, Smash Bros anyhow. It’s sorta like a relaunching of the franchise. I like it

Definitely not the greatest name. I don’t like when it’s so short like that. I would have liked something epic like Super Smash Bros Arena or Super Smash Bros Duel. Aw well, the game’s still going to be one of all the time greats anyway